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I have to give credit to Vox Day (@VoxDay) and his book “SJWs Always Lie: Taking Down the Thought Police”, specifically Chapter 10, in helping me reframe many of the discussions I’ve attempted to have with various colleagues on Facebook.

Yes, I can already feel your eyes roll. I was THAT naive to believe everyone operated on the Dialectic level.

Overly Simplistic Definitions:

Dialectic – inquiry into metaphysical contradictions and their solutions. Aristotle tradition of inquiry.

Rhetoric – language designed to have a persuasive or impressive effect on its audience, but often regarded as lacking in sincerity or meaningful content.

Pseudo-Dialectic – speech that uses some Dialectic keywords but in nonsensical / contradictory ways to amount to Rhetoric substance